Sarah Deer

Assistant Professor of Law

Biography   |   Bibliography

sarah.deer @wmitchell.edu

Phone: 651-290-6309
Fax: 651-290-6406
Office: Rm 330

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Bibliography

Legal Scholarship

"Relocation Revisited: Sex Trafficking of Native Women in the United States." 36 William Mitchell Law Review 621 (2010).

"Heeding the Voice of Native Women: Toward an Ethic of Decolonization." 81 North Dakota Law Review 807 (2005). With C.A. Martell. Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Sovereignty of the Soul: Exploring the Intersection of Rape Law Reform and Federal Indian Law." 38 Suffolk University Law Review 455 (2005). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Expanding the Network of Safety: Tribal Protection Orders for Survivors of Sexual Assault." Tribal Law Journal (University of New Mexico:2004).

"Toward an Indigenous Jurisprudence of Rape." 14 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 121 (Fall 2004). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Tribal Efforts to Comply with VAWA's Full Faith and Credit Requirements: A Response to Sandra Schmieder." 39 Tulsa Law Review 403 (2003). With M.L. Tatum. Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

Books

Sharing our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence. Lantham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Co-editor with B. Clairmont and C.A. Martell.

ntroduction to Tribal Legal Studies. Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2004. With J.B. Richland.

Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure. Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2004. With C.E. Garrow.

Other Publications

"Decolonizing Rape Law: A Native Feminist Synthesis of Safety and Sovereignty." Wicazo Sa Rev., fall 2009, at 149.

"Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime: Native Women and Children at the Mercy of the State." 31 Social Justice 17 (2004)(Reprinted in The Color of Violence, South End Press: 2006).

"Native American Women, Tribal Courts and Domestic Violence" in The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice: A Lawyer's Handbook (American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence: 2nd edition, 2004).

"Sexual Assault and Native Women" in The Watch Post, Minneapolis (2006) (See http://www.watchmn.org/).

"Victim Services: Promising Practices in Indian Country." (with several co-authors), Department of Justice: Office for Victims of Crime (Government Printing Office: 2004) (Searchable under NCJ 207019).

Advocacy

Op-Ed, "Demanding Justice: Anti-rape Activism in Indian Country," Indian Country Today, May 4, 2007.

Op-Ed, "Widening the Gap: Adam Walsh Act Raises Concerns," Indian Country Today, March 23, 2007.

Op-Ed, "Domestic Violence in Indian Country," Indian Country Today, January 19, 2007.